A classification of cultural engagements in community technology design: introducing a transcultural approach
A classification of cultural engagements in community technology design: introducing a transcultural approach
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社区技术设计中文化参与的分类：引入跨文化方法
作者：
H. Winschiers;Tariq Zaman;Colin Stanley
社区技术设计一直深受其开创性学科的范式转变和主导话语的影响，如在社区叙事中所反映的人机交互、文化和设计理论以及社区发展。社区技术设计工作的一个特殊区别是他们的文化立场，这指导着合作的议程、互动和结果。将不同的文化视角应用到社区技术设计中，不仅改变了实践，还指导了意识的水平，从而展现了从根本上不同的文化参与方法。以前的社区技术设计研究沉迷于社区参与的跨文化、跨文化和多文化方法；它专注于仔细地解构和重建视角、交互、角色和议程。我们认为，当我们在长期的合作中深深地沉浸在联合设计活动中时，我们的视野超越了个体文化，进入了一种跨文化的参与模式。跨文化社区的技术设计努力支持不断创造和重新创造新的意义，这些新的意义源于单个实体，但在现有的设计空间中得到传播和持续反映。我们建议，在社区技术设计中，在一个具有丰富文化多样性的背景下，提高意识成为必要。在我们与马来西亚、婆罗洲和纳米比亚的土著社区的长期合作和技术设计项目中，我们举例说明了文化参与方法的不同实例。对土著社区的土著知识保存和数字化努力采取跨文化方法，引发了一场关于保护还是整合地方认识论的有争议的辩论。
Community technology design has been deeply affected by paradigm shifts and dominant discourses of its seminal disciplines, such as Human Computer Interaction, Cultural and Design theories, and Community Development as reflected in Community Narratives. A particular distinction of community technology design endeavours has been their cultural stance, which directs the agendas, interactions, and outcomes of the collaboration. Applying different cultural lenses to community technology design, shifts not only practices but also directs the levels of awareness, thereby unfolding fundamentally distinct cultural engagement approaches. Previous community technology design research indulged in cross-, inter-, and multicultural approaches to community engagement; it was occupied with meticulously deconstructing and reconstructing perspectives, interactions, roles, and agendas. We argue that when deeply immersed in joint design activities in long-term collaborations, we look beyond individual cultures and enter a transcultural mode of engagement. A transcultural community technology design endeavour supports a continuous creation and re-creation of new meanings, originating from individual entities yet being diffused and continuously reflected within the existing design space. We suggest that within community technology design, a context with abundant cultural diversity, a heightened awareness becomes a necessity. We exemplify different instantiations of the cultural engagement approaches within our long-term collaborations and technology design projects with indigenous communities in Malaysian Borneo and Namibia. A transcultural approach to indigenous knowledge preservation and digitisation efforts with indigenous communities opens up a controversial debate about protecting versus integrating local epistemologies.